The Center of the Carme Culture Contemporary (CCCC) This August premieres a new edition of its Cccinema d’Estiu cycle Drunk with humor. America and comedy With the projection, of the 1 al 31 of August, of 27 American films.
Every night of August (except for Mondays), at 22.00 hours, The Gothic CCCC cloister. The cycle seeks diversity, presenting an exhibition from the entire American continent with productions from Chile, Brazil, Cuba, Argentina, Mexico, Peru or Canada, decentralizing the hegemony of the United States. So, Among the 27 titles, The CCCCinema premieres in this edition several unpublished films in Spain thanks to the research carried out that has allowed to contact the filmmakers. Titles like Argentina ‘The Critic’ (2013) by Hernán Guerschuny, that opens the cycle; The Peruvian ‘Solos’ (2015) by Joanna Lombardi, The Chilean ‘El Salvavidas’ (2011) De Maite Alberdi or the Cuban ‘The Super’ (1979) from Orlando Jiménez Leal.
The cycle starts with The critic, Hernán Guerschuny's spring opera, Director of one of the longest movie magazines in Argentina. The protagonist is entrenched after his remarkable scholarship, very convinced of your personal philias and phobias, which leads him to get caught in one of those love stories that he rejected on the screen. “Chisers, Film critics, life jacket, Superintendents of a building ... Comedy is the genre that has most explored that dissonance that ends up giving between our personal lives and the trade we perform ”, According to Gascó, And so it is reflected in Mauricio's characters, In ‘El Salvavidas’; Roberto, In ‘The Super’, who feel overwhelmed in the practice of their functions. It is also the case of Sitting pretty (1948), A Walter Lang classic that was questioning the male/female roles unthinkable in its time, Where Lynn Belvedere puts a check to a whole community by not limiting himself to his tasks of ‘modern nanny’.
Another of the keys to this new cycle is the recovery of almost lost genuine looks and its multiple ways to observe New York, Like the Kollek Amos, who in Fast Food Fast Woman (2000) The city contemplates as a magical place where miracles can still happen; or Steve Carell's proposal in Dan in real life (2007), A film that opens a hope gap in the form of magnetic smile, The one offered by Juliette Binoche. In The Good Heart (2009) Icelandic Dagur Kári fulfills the dream of shooting his American film, Although the result could not be more Nordic: Drunk atmosphere, Ms., Full of neon lights and characters abducted by the desire for success, Beauty and money.
For your part, Another of the unpublished cycle tapes, Solos, It is a beautiful Peruvian film that talks about life while it shows that cinema is already a chimera. Among the proposals also stand out The More the Merrier (Love called twice, 1943) in which George Stevens developed, instead of a patriotic film, A comedy that was a parenthesis of contagious happiness urdid in the middle of World War II. Chasing that healthy impression, The CCCC has reserved five essential titles to say goodbye every week. Apart from Modern nanny, Leo Maccarey classic are proposed, Nobility forces (1935), where an English Lord is played at your butler, Interpreted by Charles Laughton, In a poker game and he must leave for America to serve in a home in the New World. The illustrious citizen (2016) It also tells a fundamental trip, The one who undertakes an Argentine writer, The Nobel just obtained, Take the opportunity to visit your land. The film that will close this year the cycle, Hit Man (2023), is directed by Richard Linklater, a filmmaker who actively collaborates with his actors in the script in which, Through the words of its protagonist, Gary, A question is released to viewers: “What did Nietzsche mean when he said that‘ the secret to cultivating a fuller and joyful existence consists in living dangerously?”
